Water Online Highlights

  1. Nationwide Water Shortages Demand New Innovative Solutions In Clean Water 10/26/2021

    In the spring of 2019, U.S. government-funded research on watersheds revealed a dire outlook for the future of water availability in the United States. Between population growth and climate change, the study reports that “serious water shortages'' are likely to occur within the next 55 years.

  2. Need It In A Hurry - Siemens Offers Same Day Shipping 10/26/2021

    Siemens Process Instrumentation brings you innovative measurement solutions to increase plant efficiency and enhance product quality, including flow, temperature, pressure, level, weighing, and valve positioning. And we understand that in the process industry, every second counts – which is why we offer world-class engineering, testing, and production directly from our 183,000 ft2 state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in North America. Your production doesn’t stop, so why would we? Siemens delivers the instruments you need and the reliability you depend on, with same-day shipping and service available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

  3. Ransomware Attacks On Drinking Water, Wastewater Utilities Are Increasing 10/26/2021

    A slew of recent attacks makes it clear that critical infrastructure like drinking water and wastewater utilities are under increasing threats from cybercriminals and bad actors. And recent revelations from authorities are demonstrating that the problem may be even worse than previously known.

  4. Why It’s Smart To Increase Your Sewer Network Monitoring 10/25/2021

    Effectively managing hundreds of thousands of miles of sewer network is not an enviable task. And with ever changing industry regulation, stricter statutory targets, additional compliance and a growing abundance of technology, that task could easily be regarded as insurmountable. How can you ever know exactly what’s going on throughout your entire network? It’s impossible. Or is it?

  5. How Water Suppliers Can Improve Resilience Throughout Hurricane Season 10/25/2021

    Exactly 16 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans on its way toward becoming the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history, Hurricane Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast with great force. The storm would eventually move north, leaving a trail of destruction across much of the Eastern Seaboard. Nearly a month later, many who were in its path are still feeling the effects.

  6. Ancient Groundwater: Why The Water You’re Drinking May Be Thousands Of Years Old 10/25/2021

    Groundwater resources currently supply drinking water to nearly half the world’s population and roughly 40 percent of water used for irrigation globally. What many people don’t realize is how old — and how vulnerable — much of that water is.

  7. SWAN Corner: Distributed Monitoring Unlocks The Value Of Data, Delivers Quality And Accuracy 10/25/2021

    Raw sewage enters our rivers, lakes, and oceans at an alarming volume and frequency. This is a problem faced around the world. In some locations, great strides are being made to tackle this through infrastructure investment, often as a result of public and regulatory pressure, and because we all know that we need to do better.

  8. Detecting COVID-19 Early Via Wastewater Surveillance 10/25/2021

    Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is the analysis of wastewater to identify the presence of biologicals or chemicals for the purpose of monitoring public health. It can provide a snapshot of entire communities from one sample. Detecting viral diseases by way of wastewater monitoring is nothing new, it’s been known for decades that viral particles can be detected in human feces. WBE has previously been used to detect the presence of pharmaceutical or industrial waste, drugs, viruses, and potential emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In Israel, a wastewater surveillance program for monitoring polio outbreaks has been successfully running since 1989.

  9. Domestic Wastewater Treatment In Telluride, CO 10/25/2021

    Last Dollar is a year-round residential community located just outside of Telluride, Colorado. The facility had been reliant on an aging treatment system that was failing quickly and needed immediate replacement to prevent operational fines. The current technology would not meet the new and more stringent effluent requirements in Colorado, so the project had to be completed quickly and within a tight budget. AquaWorks DBO provided the permitting and site engineering support to ensure the project was completed in 8 months from contract award to system operation.

  10. The DIMMINUTOR® Makes A Difference At Ross Valley Sanitary District 10/21/2021

    Ross Valley Sanitary District in San Rafael, California services approximately 47,000 mostly residential customers over a 27 square mile service area. They have 5 major pump stations, which is where Ross Valley found themselves having the most trouble. The existing channel grinders were simply not reliable. The constant downtime was causing even more than extra work; it was costing the district a lot of money. They knew this was not a sustainable system to keep their plant and stations running.